page_title: Ancient South Arabian script
section_title: Letters
hierarchical_section_title: Ancient South Arabian script / Letters
caption_attribution_description: Wikipedia Logo in Musnad Script.
context_page_description: The Ancient South Arabian script branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the 9th century BCE. It was used for writing the Old South Arabian languages Sabaic, Qatabanic, Hadramautic, Minaean, and Hasaitic, and the Ethiopic language Ge'ez in Dʿmt. The earliest inscriptions in the script date to the 9th century BCE in the Northern Red Sea Region, Eritrea. There are no letters for vowels, which are marked by matres lectionis.
  Its mature form was reached around 500 BCE, and its use continued until the 6th century CE, including Ancient North Arabian inscriptions in variants of the alphabet, when it was displaced by the Arabic alphabet. In Ethiopia and Eritrea it evolved later into the Ge'ez script, which, with added symbols throughout the centuries, has been used to write Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, as well as other languages.
caption: Wikipedia, written with Musnad letters, from right to left on the upper line and from left to right on the bottom one. Notice how the letters are mirrored.
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